St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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ST. ALBANS SCHOOL 67 Front row, l. to r.: Snyder, Alexander. Cousins, Ghormley. Second row, l. to r.: Cooper. Cochrane, R. Myers, V. N. Philip, Triblc, Pizgott, Manger. Third row, l. to r.: Mr. Smith, Sunday, E. .lacobsen,'J. Myers, VValker. Magruder, Morrill. Back row, l. to r.: S. Davidson, G. Smith, Fish, Borden, Ernst, Bauernschmidt, Hustvedt, Breuninzer Soccer VAN Nizss PHILIP, Capfaizz MR. SMITH ScoT'I' MORRILL, Manager HE soccer team, with its first undefeated season, emerged as the Dis- trict Private School League champions for the third consecutive year, and hence the School will have permanent possession of the plaque. In League competition, St. Albans won four games, tied two, and were scored on only once in the entire season. With two impressive victories over St. James, the team also won the Interstate Academic Conference championship. With a majority of last year's team representing the School, Mr. Smith was very slightly handicapped by any loss of material. Consequently, in the opening game with Georgetown Preparatory, the team displayed a well coordinated attack of the forward line, backed up by the stellar defensive play of the half-backs, who kept the ball in Georgetown ter- ritory for over three-quarters of the game. However, the team lacked a scoring punch and could score only once. In the last minute of play, Georgetown made the only goal scored against the Blues all season, as

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66 THE 1940 ALBANIAN first Little Hoya score and the winning conversion occurred in the first six minutes, after which the winners were continually on the defensive until Eckrich's sudden seventy-six-yard touchdown-dash in the last period. The following week St. Albans suffered a complete reversal of form, but gained a lucky decision over a stronger Landon team. Following LeFevre's perfect coffin-corner kick, Denit Viciously tackled McKelway behind the goal for the winning two points. Thereafter Landon com- pletely outplayed their traditional rivals. Highlighting the game were the fine defensive play of Hannon and Hare's sixty-five-yard kick from behind his own goal line. Outstanding for Landon were Amussen's hard line plunging and Sager,s passing. Their next encounter was a hard-fought battle with a much heavier St. Paul's eleven, who won 13-7 . The Blues scored on the second play, when Hare received a fifteen-yard pass from Davidson and escaped three tacklers to run forty-five yards for a touchdown. However, St. Paul's recovered a Blue fumble on the latter,s ten-yard line and tied the score in two plays. The tie was broken in the last minute, when St. Paul,s intercepted a pass from Davidson and scored on the next play with a long pass of their own. In the season,s final, St. Albans gained an easy 19-0 victory over St. James. The regular Blue team started the game and quickly scored two touchdowns. With a comfortable lead, the reserves took over and at the half were on the Maroon five-yard line. In the third quarter the reserves tallied and were threatening again at the end of the game. The Blue defense limited St. James to one first-down and yielded but thirty-five yards. Baltimore Friends Boys, Latin ..... St. Andrew's . . Church Farm . . Georgetown Prep St. Paul,s ,.... , Landon . . . St. James , won won lost, won lost, lost, won won

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68 THE 1940 ALBANIAN the ball bounded off the back of a St. Albanas half-back past goalie Alexander, and thus caused a 1-1 tie. The next encounter, roughly and bitterly contested, saw the School team and Landon play a 0-0 deadlock. The game was evenly contested and could have been decided either way. Played on the muddiest field of the season, the game was characterized by the hard-fought play be- tween a slightly superior Blue offense and a strong Landon backfield. The excellent work of the latter's goalie was the main reason that the Blues were unable to score. The School team made the more serious threats and several shots just missed going between the goal-posts. In the third game, the Blues, playing on their own field, gained a 1-0 decision over Friends in a game which was slowed considerably by snow and mud. The St. Albans booters succeeded in beating their oppo- nents to the ball throughout the game, but the forward lines failed to capitalize on numerous scoring opportunities. The Friends team threat- ened only twice. The lone goal was made when forward Sunday scored on a penalty kick in the first twenty minutes of play. A week later, the Blues, in a return game with Landon, completely outplayeditheir opponents, and for the first time the forward line became a constant scoring threat as Sunday, Dick Myers, and Cooper each tallied a goal. Half-back Piggott's hard, persistent playing was a major factor in the Blue offense, while goalie Alexander made many spectacular saves to halt a spirited Landon rally in the last quarter. That game aided con- siderably in winning the District League championship for the Blues, for the other three contenders--Landon, Friends, and Georgetown-had now been beaten at least once. The next game, with Friends, showed a great let-up in the Blue offense which had been constantly improving. De- spite a 2-0 victory, the team appeared slow and uncoordinated, and scarcely resembled the powerful Blue machine of the week before. The goals were scored by Manger on a pass from Trible, and by Dick Myers. Determined to end the season. with a convincing victory, the team decisively outplayed Georgetown Prep before the largest gathering of the year and cap- tured a 3-0 victory as the effective com- bination of Dick Myers, Manger, and Sunday each scored a goal. The general aggressiveness and hard play of the Blue 1 eleven completely overpowered their op-